05 July 2010 | Benicia Marina

Headed out for an over night anchorage in China Basin today. When we left it was cool (60s) with high winds (in the mid 20s). When we got to China Basin it was cool (low 60s) and higher winds (25 and up). So we re set the main and headed in to Benicia Marina for a slip at the Yacht Club where it is 70ish. [...]

19 June 2010 | South Beach Marina, SF CA

We reached out to old friends like Norm Pearce and rejoined the South Beach Yacht Club this week. As you can see from the picture below, the clubhouse has undergone some major renovations. When we were members last, the clubhouse was a double-wide trailer!

Headed out for San Pablo Bay today

05 July 2010 | Benicia Marina

Dorian J. Cougias

Headed out for an over night anchorage in China Basin today. When we left it was cool (60s) with high winds (in the mid 20s). When we got to China Basin it was cool (low 60s) and higher winds (25 and up). So we re set the main and headed in to Benicia Marina for a slip at the Yacht Club where it is 70ish. We're parked in front of the yacht club:

Rejoined the South Beach Yacht Club!

19 June 2010 | South Beach Marina, SF CA

Dorian J. Cougias

We reached out to old friends like Norm Pearce and rejoined the South Beach Yacht Club this week. As you can see from the picture below, the clubhouse has undergone some major renovations. When we were members last, the clubhouse was a double-wide trailer!

While that might have changed, the burgee sure didn't.

It'll be really nice to get back into the swing of things with the old crowd again!

Its official - Venture is ours

42 feet long, 13'10" wide, with a 6' keel (she draws a total of 6'8"), she is one heck of a beautiful lady.

Previously owned by a wonderful couple who kitted her out for cruising, she has everything we need.

The hard dodger is a fantastic wind breaker and the hard windows with UV coating don't even need to be covered. Her bimini can extend all the way back to offer complete sun and wind cover, or the center section can be easily removed for more breeze and more sun.

Her electronics are state of the art with a Nav station E120 connecting Radar, GPS (with Google Earth feed), AIS ship recognition, and even sonar for harbors and anchoring. The Nav station on the binnacle has a repeater to the video feed in the saloon so that those below can see everything on the nav station above.

She has two berths -- a berth in the after (that Amos and Andy have claimed as their own) and a Pullman berth forward.

For amenities below she has a full refrigerator with a mini freezer and a really nice state of the art water maker. To supplant the battery draw (she even has AGM batteries), the previous owners installed a super-quiet genset in the aft starboard lazerrette (which is also where the water maker is at).

For Sails she has an in-mast furling main, a 110 genoa, and a full size downwind Genneker as well. To make life easy she has a main electric winch on the starboard side.

All lines are lead aft and the previous owners also installed a great boom break and travelling genoa pulleys for better sail form.